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My House to SU - 119.8 mi July 7th-9th
Song of the Ride - Not Big by Lily Allen
July 7th-9th

Hell yea Su was my first stop. I got there late Friday night, and of course stayed with Allison. We spent Saturday with Leslie and Laura, painting Al's new room, and chillin in Austin. There were some interesting conversations; Leslie seems to stumble onto the subject of sex often. Bottom line: these girls= a kick ass time. I get this killer head ache on Saturday night and the fire alarm going off at 2a.m. reallllyyyy helped it. It also helped me to get up at 5:30 a.m. Did y'all know that the Pleurocoelus is the state dinosaur of Texas? whaaaaaaaaa????? This is since 1997 apparently....

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SU to Monroe, LA - 442 mi

Song of the Ride - Let's Get Lost by Elliott Smith
July 9th-July 10th

I'm all ready and packed by 6, get some Whataburger on my way out because I know I wont be having any or awhile and I love BOB's, and I'm off to nowhere in particular. I'm just trying to get as far East as I can today. As soon as I get East of Dallas the landscape changes, which I wasn’t expecting, but I know little about the geography of le U.S. I was expecting a lot more of the South to be barren like Texas, but no, it's just us with the shitty highway view. Ok so maybe not JUST us, but seriously the highway I was on all day didn’t have as much development and a lot more (tall) trees. blah blah blah Nothing really happened I don’t think...I completely forgot I'd be going over the Mississippi River. I wouldve gotten out probably, if I had realized beforehand. As it were the exit was there and glone before I knew it. Mississippi had a pretty 'Welcome' sign. That day feels too long ago to remember much so FF to me getting a hotel room in Monroe. Buy now I'm whipped so I just ind the nearest hotel with a room ready. I watch the World Cup final and still can’t believe Zidane head butted a guy in the chest. I eat Taco Bell so that Allison doesn’t feel so far away and try and go to sleep....it's like 6pm. I can’t go to sleep till like 2 am and wake up at 5:30 again. I have to go all the way to ATL today, longest leg of the trip.


Monroe, LA to Birmingham, AL - 354 mi
(Few Hour Stop)
Song of The Ride - Heartbeats by the Knife
July 10th

The not much sleep doesn’t affect me much except for the very beginning of the trip. I've decided to stop in Birmingham because I don't want to push Amadillo. I don't really have a clue where I'm going because I have directions for straight to Atlanta. I just follow the signs that say downtown, circle 1 to 43985237406598327-ish blocks a few times and find a sub shop. I get it to go so I can go to a park and eat. I saw this park on my way in and didn’t realize it was the Kelly Ingram Park that I had read about in a travel book a few days before. I don’t really care for the whole museums and blahblahblah I like the stuff that I can just....enjoy, preferably with someone who knows a lot about the area. I guess I don’t like the planned tourist attractions as much as stumbling along something, is what I'm trying to say. So anyways I meet this guy there....I know what y’all are thinking...but I'm still alive so he wasn’t a murderer or anything. Anyways he was a local and gave me a lil tour of sorts of the park. He had a way of not making any of it seem boring, or rehearsed; it was obvious the history o the city meant a lot to him. He talked bout how his parents would come home drenched but wouldn’t let the kids know what was going on and he later figured out that they took part in the demonstrations that took place there, where the park was located, where police and fire fighters arrested, used attack dogs on, and hosed down demonstrators. Then he showed me the 16th street Baptist church. Which was a church that was bombed, killing 4 girls. It just became a historical landmark this year, but in order for it to be a historical landmark it has to be restored with the same materials that were originally used when it was built. So, I took a picture of a crack that was left by the bomb because it won’t be there pretty soon. By now I had been in Birmingham for a few hours and figured Amadillo was well rested. This is when I figure out I have a pretty good sense of direction cause I find the Highway I was never suppose to get off and got 2 more hours till Atlanta.


Birmingham, AL to Atlanta, GA - 146 mi
Song of the Ride - (Far From) Home by Tiga
July 10th-July13th

Welllllll I cant remember anything really happening now...til I get to Atlanta I mean. There was a convoy of corvettes.....there was a tank....anddddd I liked the landscaping cause on this leg of the trip I start to see these vines covering trees and it just looks all lush and lively......sooooooo of course I take pictures cause what else am I suppose to be doing? paying attention to the road? pfffff. This part of the trip (Monroe to ATL) wasnt as bad as I thought it was gonna be when I thought about it that morning. I love driving though. At first I had a really uncanny feeling like "Why the Hell are you leaving home?". I didn't notice that feeling dissolve as I got further and further away; replaced by calm.